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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Plan and design plant layouts and facilities
• Study new machinery and facilities and recommend or select efficient combinations
• Develop flexible or integrated manufacturing systems and procedures
• Conduct studies and implement programs to determine optimum inventory levels for production and to allow optimum utilization of machinery, materials and resources
• Analyze costs of production
• Design, develop and conduct time studies and work simplification programs
• Determine human resource and skill requirements and develop training programs
• Develop performance standards, evaluation systems and wage and incentive programs
• Conduct studies of the reliability and performance of plant facilities and production or administrative systems
• Develop maintenance standards, schedules and programs
• Establish programs and conduct studies to enhance industrial health and safety or to identify and correct fire and other hazards
• Evaluate or assess industrial facilities
• Supervise technicians, technologists, analysts, administrative staff and other engineers.

• A bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or in a related engineering discipline is required.
• A master's degree or doctorate in a related engineering discipline may be required.
• Licensing by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers is required to approve engineering drawings and reports and to practise as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).
• Engineers are eligible for registration following graduation from an accredited educational program, and after three or four years of supervised work experience in engineering and passing a professional practice examination.

• Engineers often work in a multidisciplinary environment and acquire knowledge and skills through work experience that may allow them to practise in associated areas of science, engineering, sales, marketing or management.
• Industrial engineers develop and implement organizational and management systems, and manufacturing engineers design production processes.
• Supervisory and senior positions in this unit group require experience.
• There is considerable mobility between industrial engineering specializations at the less senior levels.

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